Who let him join the Sword Sect?!-Chapter 651 - 354: Prohibition of Wage Discussions Among Employees_2

"A vase." The little girl replied.

"What kind of vase?" Zhang Ze asked.

The little girl looked at it for a while and said, "The kind that looks really, really expensive. You better not make me clean it. I'm clumsy, and if I break it, I couldn't afford to pay for it even if you sold me."

Zhang Ze said, "Alright, no worries."

After the little girl left, Zhang Ze went back to the bookshelf and fiddled with the gold-coated copper lock, wondering if he should just yank it off to see what's inside.

As he was pondering, Miemie's voice sounded in his ear.

"Don't mess with it, or you'll get struck by lightning."

Miemie's faint soul drifted out from Zhang Ze's body, positioning itself between him and the box.

"What's this?" Zhang Ze asked the same question again.

"It's the old stuff's collection, even I can't touch it, so no matter who you are, you're not allowed to touch it either." Miemie said, hands on hips, looking at Zhang Ze.

"I know you have a lot of questions, just like I do. But hold on, I need a body right now."

Miemie's soul floated around the room, as if searching for something, muttering to itself.

"Where's my book? That big family tree book?"

Zhang Ze said, "Well, your book..."

Miemie said, "Don't talk, let me find what I'm looking for, then I'll explain."

Zhang Ze said, "I mean, I have your book here."

Miemie said, "..."

Zhang Ze placed the book, which resembled a system interface, on the table and quietly watched Miemie work.

Miemie was trying to exchange for a new body, but due to economic difficulties, the process was not smooth.

On the nineteenth attempt, Miemie finally managed to exchange for a new body through a small credit loan from the system.

A sheep-headed rag doll.

"Oh well, it'll have to do for now." Miemie flew under the table, pressed a mechanism, and moments later, an array appeared on the floor behind the screen. Miemie walked into the array with the doll.

"No peeking." After saying that, her divine soul and the doll disappeared into the array.

Moments later, Miemie, in doll form, emerged from the array again and flew in front of Zhang Ze, looking into his eyes and asked.

"Who exactly are you? Why do you also have permissions from the old stuff?"

This was Miemie's biggest mystery.

After Zhang Ze entered the range of the Everywhere Pass, Miemie had already woken up. Initially, she thought Zhang Ze was being mistaken for 'Miemie' because of her own issue.

But when she discovered Zhang Ze could see the box and that big book, she realized something was wrong.

Such things were unheard of, leaving her bewildered.

'The old stuff' never makes mistakes, but why?

Thinking it over and over, Miemie decided to confront Zhang Ze directly to clear things up.

Zhang Ze did not immediately answer Miemie's question, his eyes still fixed on the box.

After a long while, Zhang Ze finally spoke, "Could it be that I'm your predecessor, or maybe... your colleague?"

"What evidence do you have?" Miemie asked.

Zhang Ze pointed to the box, "That is my thing."

Without waiting for Miemie to retort, he stepped forward and took the box off the shelf. During this, he wasn't struck by lightning, nor was there any unforeseen disaster.

He placed the box on the table and pinched the copper lock with his fingers, giving it a gentle pull...

Yet nothing happened; the copper lock remained intact.

Miemie said, "?"

Zhang Ze was a bit embarrassed; he coughed lightly, "Don't rush; I haven't had breakfast this morning."

After saying that, he gathered Spiritual Qi in his fingers, sharp as a blade, and slashed towards the copper lock.

This time there was a response, but it wasn't from the box; instead, it was from Miemie's big book.

[Unknown attack detected, counterattack... Source of attack detected...]

[Error, counterattack stopped... Error, error, command reset]

[Anomaly, please open the copper box within ten seconds, authentication process begins... Ten, nine, ...]

Miemie, "?!"

Miemie now felt like strangling Zhang Ze. She deeply regretted not stopping him, allowing him to touch the box.

The box itself was actually not important to Miemie; she didn't care what was inside. However, its existence was extremely important to her.

Miemie could easily imagine that if the box was destroyed, 'the old stuff' would definitely blame her for it afterward.

Her points had long been reduced to negative, and another incident like this would mean that the grace from the old stuff would take several lifetimes to repay.

But just as Miemie was contemplating whether to perish together with Zhang Ze, Zhang Ze suddenly pulled out a large pile of keys from his Hundred Treasures Bag.

A large pile of identical keys.

All these keys were issued to him by the system.

Before the Qinghe Association, there was a period when, perhaps due to the Hundred Demons Sect meddling with the Earth Vein, there were rumors of Primordial creatures waking up all over.

At that time, the system assigned Zhang Ze numerous tasks to capture these Primordial creatures.

After completing the first task, Zhang Ze found it troublesome and decided to outsource the job.

He posted missions in the Sword Sect and Beast Taming Sect and only handled the rewards himself.

Just a touch and passing them off counted as his own capture.

As the capture missions were completed, in addition to the increase in system points, the system also gave him a large pile of identical keys.

As if afraid he'd lose them.

The system didn't explain the purpose of those keys at the time, nor were there any subsequent missions.

Even the description seemed to be nonsense.

[Key, can be used to unlock]

Initially, Zhang Ze was somewhat interested; whenever he encountered a lock he didn't recognize, he would pull out a key and give it a few tries.